Course: 4th Year

Students’Surnames: __Cúneo, Spalletti, Fraguas and

Romano________________________________________________________________

ENGLISH EXAM
Grammar

1. Tenses: (specify functions and underline adverbs of time at the end of the activity, please)
Simple Present or Present Continuous:
a) Look! Those men _______are stealing____ Wendy´s car! (steal)
b) Sh! I ___am trying ______________ to concentrate on doing the online exam! (try)
c) How often ___does_____ Frank ____arrive_______ late at work? (arrive)
d) Tasha usually ___goes___________ to the gym three times a week but this month she ____is
going________
only once because she ______has_________ extra work. (go x 2 – have)
e) Simon __is________an engineer and he actually ___loves ________ his job. Right now he
______is designing ________ a new road. (be – love - design)
Simple Past or Past Continuous:
f) Monzon and Fangio _____were_________ famous Argentinian sportsmen.
g) We _______were having___________ dinner at a fancy restaurant when Taylor Swift
________entered______ and everybody ___went ________ crazy. (have – enter – go)
h) Yesterday while our dad _______was cuting____________ the grass, mum ______was
cooking____________ lunch and I _____was tiding up_________ my bedroom. (cut – cook – tidy
up)
Going to or Will?
i) Millie ____________is going to take_____________ a flight to Washington in two hours. (take)
j) Are you ready? ….. No, but I _____will be________ in five minutes! (be)
k) There ______won’t_________ robots in stores in 2022. (not be)

a) Present Continuous – Look! - An action at the moment of speaking

b) Present Continuous – Sh! – An action at the moment of speaking
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c) Simple Present – How often – present habit
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d) Simple Present – usally – presnt habit / Present Continuous – this month – temporary states /
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e) Simple Present – is – permanent state / Present Continuous – actually temporary state /
Present Continuous – right now – action happening now
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f) Simple Past – were –General truth from the past
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g) Past Continuous – were having – an action that will be interrupted / Simple Past – when –
action that interrupt
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h) Past Continuous – while – simultaneous action in the past.
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i) Going to – in two hours – arrangement
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 j) Simple Future – in five minutes – action decided at the moment of
speaking______________________________________________________________________
k) Simple Future – in 2022 – action without evidence
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2. Comparative, superlative or neutral:

a) Bolivia is _____________the smallest _____________ country in South America. (small)
b) New York city is __________more fashionable_______than____ Boston. (fashionable)
c) Boil the potatoes is ________healthier ____than________ fry them in hot oil. (healthy)
d) Oreo cake is _______the best______________ of all the cakes. (good)
e) Frank is _______the tallest______________ in his class. (tall)

3. Complete with the correct WH-word:

a) _______When________ do classes start? On March, 9 th.
b) ________Where_______ does Brenda go on holidays? To the beach.
c) ________Who_______ are those people? They are my parents- in- law.
d) _________What______ are you eating? A tuna sandwich.
e) ________How many_______ best friends have you got? Just one.
f) ______Why_________ can’t Henry come? Because he is busy.

4. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence,
using the word you are given. Do not change this word.
Example: We weren’t in France last year. We went to Germany. VISIT
We __didn’t visit _last year. We went to Germany.

a) Amanda wants her husband help with the housechores. (SHOULD)

He_should help Amanda with the
housechores_________________________________________
b) I am 18 and my brother is 12. (AS…AS)
I am _as big as my brother_________________________________________
c) We need to buy eggs and meat. (HAVE)
We_have to buy eggs and meat. ________________________________________
d) Kiara is fan of electronic music. ( LOVE)
She loves electronic music. _________________________________________
e) Young people think Instagram is better than any other social web. (THE) People think Instagram
is the best social web. ______________________________
f) Cream, butter and yoghurt are milk products. (DAIRY)
_Cream, butter and yoghurt are dairy
products_______________________________________________ products.
g) Julia has got two skills: cook pasta and play the piano. (CAN)
Julia __can cook pasta and play the piano.
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h) My birthday is on the second month of the year. (FEBRUARY)
I was borning February. ____________________________________________
 Modal verb: (specify the function from e to i at the end of each sentence too)
Pay attention! Some of them can be in the negative form!!!!
4.
a) When you do an omelette, first you _____have to_________ stir the eggs well. (necessary)
b) You _____should__________ take an aspirin if you have a headache. (advice)
c) At school students _______mustn’t________ use their cell phones in class. (prohibition)
d) We _______must________ respect Nature. (moral obligation)
e) John __________doesn’t have to__________ work today because his office is closed today. ___
Not obligation___________
f) Chefs _______have to____________ be super clean in the kitchen. _______Rule______________
g) You _________shouldn’t __________ get angry all the time! People hate your attitudes.
_____advice_________
h) Drivers ______have to_________ stop at red light. _____law________________
i) People _______mustn’t __________ smoke in planes. _______Rule_________

Vocabulary

a. Write the correct verb to complete the phrase:

_____learn______ to drive ________buy___ clothes ____do_____ an exam ____have_____

dinner
______get_____ down ____________ running ___eat______ a salad _____Take____ photos
______listen_____ a song ___turn _____ out

b. Circle the correct option:

 Another way of saying “twelve o’çlock at night” is midday/midnight.

 I can’t eat dairy food so I never have juice/milk in the fridge.
 Take a carton of crisps/juice and then go to the entrance/checkout to pay.
 Mixture/Mix the tomato sauce and pour/insert it into a pot.
 Michaela doesn’t win/earn a very short/high salary.
 Today most women works/work.
 A person who designs roads or bridges is an architect/engineer.
 The opposite of sociable is shy/confident and the synonym of kind is unkind/polite.

c. Complete with the correct preposition and then answer the questions:

 What do you do __at____ a typical weekday? ____________We play

videogames_________________
 Did you get __up_____ early today? _____________Yes, we did_____________
 Are you ready ___to_____ do all these activities? ________Yes, we are __________________
 What are you going to do ____for_______ the tp? ____________This activity ______________
 Were you born ____on_______ 2003? _________No, we didn’t__________________

Reading
Complete the text about Ashton Kutcher with the verbs in brackets in the past.

ASHTON KUTCHER´S PROFILE

American actor and model, Ashton Kutcher………was born………(be born) on 7th February
1978, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.A. His parents Larry and Diane………worked……….…
(work)in a factory. His first acting experience………came………..…(come)when he………
was..…….(be)twenty years old, and he………appeared………..(appear)in the comedy Coming
soon, in 1999.
In 2003, he…………engaged……………….(engage)to the actress Brittany Murphy, but
they……………broke up………….….(break up)five months later.
In 2005, Ashton…………married……..(marry) the actress Demi Moore, in a small ceremony
at their Beverly Hills home.
In 2009, Kutcher…made……….(make) history by becoming the first user on Twitter to have a
million followers.
In 2010 while he…………was doing………….. (do) a film, he………was…………(be) named one
of the most influential man in the world.
Today, he ………………has…………….. (has) a foundation, to eliminate child slavery.